Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-02-10
WASHINGTON NOTES.

IT was rumored in Washington that
Minister Pendleton had been recalled to
succeed Mr.. Manning as Secretary of the
Treasury. The rumor was not generally
credited.
WILLIAM f. You've, of the New York
Stock Exchange, has been proposed to the
President as a member of the Interstate
Commerce Committee
THE public debt statement for January
showed a decrease of $9,5l5,6S6.-
AL. but twenty of the clerks in the office
of the Chief Signal Officer have signed a
petition to Congress for the transfer Of the
Signal Corps to the civil list.
SECRETARY MANNING informed the Sen
ate the other day that so far as was known
no national banks were loaning or discount
ing bills or notes requiring payment in
gold coin only.
SECRETARY ENDICoTr has informed the
House that a Government dry dock of tho
largest size is not needed at Louisville, KY.
THE House Committee on Territories has
favorably considered the bill for the or
Sanization Of the Territory Of Alaska.
THE Department Of the Interior has asked
for an appropriation of 81, 500, 900 to defray
the cost of the removal of the Jacarilla In
ilians now on the Mescalero reservation, in
New Mexico, to more suitable lands in the
vicinity of their former location in the
northern part Of the Territory, where they
ure specially DESTROYS of living.
The President has accepted a section Of
the Oregon Il California railroad, beginning
ut APPOINT fOrty-ive miles of Roseburg Ore,
and running south 100 miles.
A DEPUTY sergcant-at-arms Of the Senate
has been sent to Texas with a list of twen-
ty-fivc witnesses who are to be subpGnaed
In connection with the alleged political out
RACES which the Committee on Privileges
Ind Elections is directed to investigate.
Tue Department of the Interior has asked
Congress for an appropriation of S25,O 600 for
salaries, expenses, etc, of special agents
Tor locating Indians on lands in scveralty
under the act recently passed, In which no
appropriation was made for the special
agents required to be employed for that
purpose.
president and Mrs. Cleveland enter
tanned the Diplomatic Corps ut the State
dinner on the night Of the Sd. Covers were
laid for forty guests. The White House
was magniiicently decorated with plants
and flowers
TREASURER JORDAN admitted recently
that Secretary Manning was to be presi-
dent, and that he Tordan) was to be vice
president OF the Western National Bank of
the city of New York. The resignation of
both officials were in the hands of the Presi
dent, and would be accepted in due time
The President on the 4th signed the In
terstate Commerce bill; also the act to fix
day for the meeting of the electors of the
President and Vice-President, and the act
authorizing the construction of bridge
over the Mississippi river at ST. Louis.
The Spanish Minister to this country re-
Gently declared that he was in favor of CO.
ercion and reprisals unless the negotiations
for carrying out a reciprocity treaty be-
tween Spain and the United States reached
favorable result by March
THE EAST.
REPRESENTATIVE S. s. Cox, of New York
was able to sit up for half an hour on the 3lst
ABOUT $50 of the Lorillard tobacco fac
tory hands in Jersey City, N. j., have re-
turned to work on the firms terms
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